What damage can it do to Turkey to admit that 2 million tortured and killed Armenians was genocide?

Question

As a Mulim I do not see why Turkey is making such a false propaganda to deny Intrntional reports that massacres took place actually did not? This is against Islam to lie.
And Gul being an ex- hood himself should not object.

Turkey then occupied Armenian lands: Vank & Samsung Province, Nagorno Karabagh, Nakhijavan, parts of Azarbaijan etc ..
Same is being copied in Cyprus, Darfur , Kurdish lands and Palestine as Hitler did during the holocaust .. and Turkey is the model & excuse that the world will not object if it gets a pay-off.

Answer 1

It cannot damage Turkey , contrary it would bring out the greatness of a nation if they admit to the crime their fore-fathers committed. Like the Germans who are great people as they admitted to the Hitler epoch crimes.
Instead Turks occupied Armenia and have now blocked all exits of Armenia border. Shows a wild and savage mentality.

Answer 2

The answer is "national pride". It's an ancient but recurrent problem for most nations, including allegedly enlightened ones like the U.S. and Britain. Both the U.S. and Britain have committed what objectively amounted to large scale atrocities but you do not see much hand wringing over them. Here is an example. At the end of the 19th century Britain wanted to break the resistance of the Boers (Dutch-speaking white settlers) in South Africa. The British invented the first modern concentration camps for the Boers they managed to capture -- I need not go into the details, all concentration camps are basically the same. The U.S. poisoned vast tracts of Vietnam and Cambodia with agent orange to defoliate jungle that it believed was a refuge for the Vietnamese resistance. To this day the number of birth abnormalities are very high in Vietnam. No real mea culpas so far. Some have put it to me that what was done in Vietnam had no racial component. Really? Do they think that the U.S. would have done that to, say, the Serbs?

Turkey is behaving much like Japan in refusing to acknowledge its past atrocities. Pride holds them back. The Japanese had a problem with race too, holding other Asian peoples in contempt when they conquered many countries during WW2. They massacred hundreds of thousands. Today the young Japanese would find it hard to believe their grandparents perpetrated such evil.

Germans to their credit took all responsibility for the Holocaust. That is very unusual, but perhaps the evidence was so complete it could only be denied by the insane.

Answer 3

Well, the damage has been done. A group or committee in the U.S. has already come forward and something like 21 to 28 voted to say "yes" that Turkey committed Genocide against the Armenians.
What this is going to do to Turkish U.S. relations over something that happen 90 years ago, remains to be seen.

Turkey is a strong supporter to the U.S. in it's war on terrorism and in Iraq. Now we have to wait for the replay. Our ambassadors are working full time to nullify the outcome and try and press for a peaceful accord.

Answer 4

We have the same problem in the US where we entered the
continent, and systematically moved, killed, infected and wiped out nearly all native americans, or forcibly put them into inhospitable and nearly unihabitable places like the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. To this day we still do not really own up to this story, but instead have covered it over with many fictional historical rewrites and slanders to the natives. This is probably a common fact to many countries, especially if there is any history of conquering in a countries past.

History is usually written by the winners of the past. If Germany and Japan had won WWII, Eisenhower and McArthur may well have been tried for war crimes.

Answer 5

self-critics is not the best Quality of Turkish in general.... Turkish had mithised their history, how admit that they acted not much better than they did Germans with Ebrews, or English with Zulu and so on ? Lets remeeber that Armenians were the oldest Chirstian community in Anatholia, living there from Roman times...

Answer 6

Many people lie because by admitting the truth they would lose face. Muslims , of all people, consistently lie. I like to know a muslim who does not lie. Of course, not all liars are muslims, but liars are generally muslims , e.g. that nut of president of Iran is a perfect example as well as all the muslims who perpetrated 9/11 ansd say that it was a plot by the US Government. It is in the nature of the n beasts. Theyare not the only liarss of course, but they are the overwhelming majority , e.g. they kill each other yet deny thst muslims ever kill other muslims.. what a bunch of liars!

Answer 7

I think a better question is, why should they call it genocide. Is it going to bring anybody back to life? Or is it going to make their death more important? The only change you will get is relations between Turkey and the US will not be as good.So maybe now Turkey will be less tolerant about the Kurdish rebels making raids into their country, and the Kurdish region can become another US problem.

Answer 8

Short answer =reparations. If you admit culpability, from a legal standpoint you open yourself up to litigation. If they admit they committed crimes they would have to pay restitution.